Candy buffet @ wedding

strawberrychewits · 4 August 2011 at 3:04PM

Hiya,

I am getting married in a few months and looking to have a candy buffet at the reception. I am doing it myself and was just wondering if anyone has any moneysaving times sites i could purchase items for it.

Any help appreciated.

scheming_gypsy · 4 August 2011 at 3:13PM

the delivery charge on the candy from America would be expensive..

but if you want to buy some sweets, have you tried sites like 'a quarter of' ? they mainly do old sweets but do them in hampers http://www.aquarterof.co.uk/retro_sweet_hampers.php

strawberrychewits · 4 August 2011 at 3:16PM

Thanks for the post scheming_gypsy. Im looking for websites who sell, scoops, tongs, sweet bags & tags etc. I have jars from ikea and my local bookers to fill them with sweets. Also looking for folk who have maybe done it themselves to give me ideas for my table decoration.

Thanks again

pimento · 4 August 2011 at 3:19PM

Is this instead of a dinner? Will sweets be the only thing on offer?

balletshoes · 4 August 2011 at 3:19PM

have you tried ebay or amazon for the utensils? I love the idea of candy buffets

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strawberrychewits · 4 August 2011 at 3:26PM

Lol Pimento, we are still having the usual meal and evening buffet. There will be 12 children at the wedding including my 2 and thought it would be nice to have something for them and also for the big kids. Ive seen something about candy buffets on here before but nothing recently.
:rotfl::rotfl:

Magicboo · 4 August 2011 at 3:32PM

try asking on the wedding forum-they're full of fab ideas over there.
it's a sub forum under Special occasions
x

Kitten_Pie · 4 August 2011 at 3:51PM

I had huge martini glasses as centre pieces filled with retro sweets. I got it from a company so not totally mse however I did manage to get them to halve the price and paid £150 for all 11 centre pieces which was much cheaper than the flower quotes. The adults loved them and were trading between tables which helped with the mingling.

FatVonD · 4 August 2011 at 3:56PM

You could buy some net, cut it into squares and fill with half a dozen pretty sweets instead of the traditional sugared almonds then tie with ribbon for wedding favors (favours?)

Person_one · 4 August 2011 at 4:31PM

Don't have the bags, grown ups feel silly using the bags so they don't, they just look longingly at the table! Have little dishes or bowls of some sort.